The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-01-21

tentIOn To the tact that IN The great
majority OF troub es the rights and in
terests of the whole people are rudely
ffected, and they have the right TO
enforce peace.
Samuel Dysart. the new president Of
the Illinois board of agriculture, says
that organization favOrs an appropria-
ton OF $25.,O0 toward the eradication
OF pleuro pneumonia. and has appoint
ed q COMMITTEES TO urge its passage by
the legislature.
Being afl cted with a bowel COM
plant, Mrs. Henry VIM, of Oak
Grove. Illinois, went fort, seven days
without food or drink. dying OH We'd
nesday evening. From weigh Of
three hundred pounds she declined TO
a mere skeleton.
Rev. John Patterson. of Cambridye,
Wlscons n, was eirly Friday morning
found lying III the snow in front of the
public library ut Milwaukee. with a
fatal cut in h s throat. lie had become
men ally unbalanced from sunslroke
rece we'd last summer.
A deadlock has arisen in the Nebras-
kal legislature on the senatOrship.
With fifteen names on the ballots, G..
Ill Van Wyck received Al votes an j.
Sterling Morton 81 Tue latter has
been absent from the state for month
and is not Il candidate.
Evidence taken by the grand jury at
Ogden. Utah, showed that in three
room house in that city live William
e ngham. two wives, twenty unmar-
RED children, five married sons, with
their wives and fifteen children, and
two hired men III the attic.
Miss Fannie v. Baldwin. second
cousin of The Sun Francisco Million
aire. whom she once attemp ell to kill
for criminal assault. has been tenn
porarily committed to the Home for
the Frendless in Chicago. proceedings
i'll insani being suspended.
AT Cedar Falls, Iowa, William Cros-
by killed his wife and himself. They
were married two years ag). and he
husband received $4 100 from his
fathers es ate. just previous to the
tragedy Crosby paid every debt due in
town, including the servant.
During dense fog SATURDAY. morn
ing the Dublin steam packet B lnshee,
with three hundred passengers on
board, ran on the rocks at Holvhead.
The steamsh p Eleanor went to her aid
and was stranded. but the Banshee
flOated off within three hours.
Citizens OF Illinois, Kentucky, and
Texas have secured at Springfield u
license to incorporate the Chicago.
Paiucah and New Orleans Railroad
with Il capital stock OF 81 -
O00,OOO. They propose to lay tracks
from Lake Michigan to the Ohio river.
Tbs house committee on invalid PEN
sions. by q strict party vote. decided TO
make an adverse report Oh the bills to
pension Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Blair.
The ground of opposition is he fact
that the husbands of these ladies did
not die from injuries received in the
service.
The strike of the New York coal
handlers is causing considerable anx-
iety. as, should it not soon be settled,
q coal fam ne may ensue. The strikers
are well organized and have strong
allies IN the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers and tine United Order
OF Brakemen.
The receivers of the New Jersey
Central road. after fully investigating
the strike of the coal-shippIng COM
panies Tor 25 cents per hour, find that
labor of he same grade OH the rail-
ways brings but II cents and that they
can not recommend that the coal COM
panies yield.
The ma n points for the sale of ABB
miles Of track by the East Tennessee
road to the Richmond and West Point
have been agreed upon. The
parties controlling the former are to
receive for their preferred stock 81
4W,OO0 in cash and four thousand
shares OF Richmond stock.
The schooner Parallel. loaded with
fifty tons of powder, was wrecked Sum
day on the Seal rocks at San Francis
co. The powder ignited, and the ex-
plosion which resulted demolished the
signal and life-saving stations and the
Cliff house and shattered the conserva-
tory Of Adolph Sutro.
General w. ID. Hazen. the chief OF
the signal service corps, died Sunday
evening in Washington, aged 81 years.
A graduate of West Point. he entered
the last war as colonel of the 4lst Ohio
and rose to the rank of
major general. His widow, now in
France, is daughter of Washington
Mclean.
The Inauguration of Governor Ross,
Of Texas, was made the occasion of a
grand civic and military display at
Austin. The Inauguration of General
Beaver as governor or Pennsylvania
attracted fifteen thousand persons to
Pattison, the retiring
governor, will practice law in Philar
delphia.
About midnight on Wednesday
vast mass of rock and ice near the
Horseshoe falls at Niagara fell into
the gorge below, changing very mator.
tally the formation OF the precipice on
tho Canadian side. The break was
near the SPIRAL stairway, and $50 feet
Of the government iron railing was
carried down.
Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, has
been selected by the republican men,
bers of the Illinois legislature as their
candidate for senator. A native of
New York, he removed to Illinois in
1888. and has resided in Chicago for
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